Re: Documentation epub format

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:42:33AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 05/01/2013 11:36 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
> >On 02/05/13 15:23, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 18:27 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> >>>I must admit that there is a bit of a disappointement as far as the
> >>>user experience is concerned: the generated file is barely usable on
> >>>an iPad2 with the default iBooks reader, which was clearly not
> >>>designed for handling a "4592" pages book (from its point of view).
> >>Well, clearly there are mainstream books that have 1000 pages, so it
> >>ought to be designed for that. It's not clear to me then why it
> >>necessarily must fail at 4000 pages. I think you might want to run some
> >>experiments to see what the reader can handle before we start doing
> >>anything.
> >>
> >>
> >There might be something silly in some eReaders, like reserving 12
> >bits for page numbers internally - as 'no one will ever want a
> >book with more than 4095 pages!'?
>
> My ancient Sony PRS-505 e-reader has the epub paginated at 5200
> pages, and it seems to work just fine, if a bit slowly.
>
> It's possibly worth noting that the epub is about 1.5 times the size
> of that for War and Peace.

At least ours doesn't start out like this:

Eh bien, mon prince. Gênes et Lueques ne sont plus que des
apanages, des поместья, de la famille Buonaparte. Non, je vous
préviens que si vous ne me dites pas que nous avons la guerre, si
vous vous permettez encore de pallier toutes les infamies, toutes
les atrocités de cet Antichrist (ma parole, j’y crois) — je ne
vous connais plus, vous n’êtes plus mon ami, vous n’êtes plus мой
верный раб, comme vous dites. Ну, здравствуйте, здравствуйте.
Je vois que je vous fais peur, садитесь и рассказывайте.

Cheers,
David.
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